Arthritis

The Bureau of Economic Analysis in the U.S. Department of Commerce has revamped the way it measures medical costs to look at "how much the U.S. spends to treat different medical conditions."

Topping out the list, way ahead of the others, are diseases of the circulatory system (heart disease, hypertension, etc.) at $250 billion annually (That 2010 number's up from $150 billion in 2000), with about one-quarter of the costs attributable to hospitalization -- double the spending on cancer hospitalization.

Next costliest are musculoskeletal diseases, (arthritis, back pain, etc.) at $175 billion in 2010, as compared to $75 billion in 2000. These are followed by...

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